Fly-trap.



J. L. HUSHAW.

FLY TRAP. 7

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 1!, 1915.

1,191,972. Patented July 25,1916.

Z '7 if Witnesses JACOB L. HUSHAW, 0F SODUS, MICHIGAN.

FLY-TRAP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 25, 1916.

Application filed December 11, 1915. Serial No; 66,321.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAooB L. HUSHAW, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sodus, in the county of Berrien and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Fly-Trap, of which the following is a specification. p

This invention relates to fly traps, one of the objects being to provide a trap especially designed for use in connection with screen doors and window screens, the invention be ing simple in construction,capable of ready application to a screen fabric, andproviding means whereby flies can pass readily into the trap when attracted thereto but cannot leave the same.

A further object is to provide a trap which can be removed readily from the structure supporting it, whenever it is desired to destroy the flies therein.

lVith the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the: invention.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings; Figure l is a front elevation of a screen structure having thepresent improvements combined therewith. Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a section 011 line AB Fig. 2.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates a screen fabric forming a part of a screen door or a window screen and in this fabric near the upper end thereof is formed an opening 2 designed to receive a tubular trap member 3 extending from a ring 4- which bears against one face of the fabric 1 as shown particularly in Fig. 3. Another ring 5 extends around the tubular member 3 and bears against the other face of the fabric, the tworings being secured together by means of'small pieces of wire such as shown at 6, or in any other suit able manner, these rings being thus bound securely upon the fabric so as to hold the trap fixed relative thereto. Obviously by removing the wire fasteners 6 or the other fastening means employed, the trap can be.

easily detached.

segmental closure 9. Extending from this pivot rod 8 toward the wall of the sleeve 7 and in the direction of; the foraminous portion 8, is a transversely curved foraminous partition 10 forming between it and the wall of sleeve 7, a passage 11 gradually reduced in transverse area toward the foraminous portion 8. An opening 12 is providedv at the small end of this passage, the wires of which the partition 10 is made being arranged about this opening so as to form prongs extending in the direction of the foraminous portion 8, these prongs being indicated at 13 in Fig. 3. When the closure 9 is in normal position, it closes the space in sleeve 7 above the partition 10 so that flies moving along the passage 11 and through the opening 12 into the foraminous portion '8 of the trap cannot leave the trap by moving over thepartition 10. Arranged on the sleeve 7 is an car 14 constituting a keeper adapted to be engaged by a bail-shaped handle 15 extending laterally. from a crank arm 16 at one endof the pivot wire or rod 8. WVhen handle 15 is in engagement with the keeper 1 1, the closure 9 is maintained in shut position. When the sleeve 7 is in position on the tubular support 3, the end of the support likewise constitutes a means for holding the closure 9 shut.

After thetrap herein described has been applied to a screen fabric, it will be apparent that flies attracted to the trap by bait placed in the foraminous portion 8 will move along the interior of the support 3 and sleeve 7 and will pass under partition 10 and through the opening 12. Prongs 13 will prevent them from returning by way of the opening 12 and the closure 9 will prevent them escaping over the partition '10. After a number of flies have been accumulated in the trap, the trap can be removed, the closure 9 being kept'in shut position by the keeper 14:. The trap can then be placed in hot water so as to kill the flies, after which the closure 9 can be released and opened so as to permit the insects or flies to be removed from the trap. The closure is then reset, it being held in shut position by the bail-like handle 15 engaging keeper l4 and the sleeve is then slipped onto the tubular support 3 whereupon the structure is ready for use. As a means for guiding flies to the trap, upwardly converging cleats 17 may be secured upon the fabric 1, these cleats meeting above the trap and extending adjacent opposed portions thereof as shown in Fig. 1.

What is claimed is 1. A trap including a tubular support having open ends, means for fastening said support within a structure, a sleeve detach ably mounted on the support, a foraminous portion extending from the sleeve and closed at its free end, a foraminous partition within the sleeve and forming a passage of gradually diminishing area, there being an opening at the small end of the passage and giving access to the interior of the foraminous portion, a swinging closure at one end of the partition and closing the space above the partition, the tubular support constituting means for holding the closure in shut position.

A trap including a tubular support having open ends, means for fastening said support within a structure, a sleeve detachably mounted on the support, a foraminous portion extending from the sleeve and closed at its free end, a foraminous partition within the sleeve and forming a passage of gradually diminishing area, there being an opening at the small end of the passage and giving access to the interior of the foraminous portion, a swinging closure at one end of the partition and closing the space above the partition, a swinging handle movable with the closure, and means on the sleeve co- Copies of this patent may he obtained for operating with the handle for holding the closure in shut position.

3. A trap including a tubular support, means for securing it to a support-ing structure, a sleeve detachably engaging the support, a foraminous portion extending from the sleeve and having its free end closed, a diagonally disposed .foraminous partition within the sleeve and forming a passage gradually reduced in area toward one end, there being an opening in the reduced end of the passage affording communication with the interior of the foraminous portion, and means for closing the space within the sleeve above the large end of the passage.

l. The combination with a foraminous structure having an. opening therein, rings clamped upon opposite faces of said structure and extending around the opening, and a tubular support carried by one of said rings and extending through said structure and the other ring, of a sleeve detachably engaging said tubular support, a forami-' nous portion at one endof the sleeve andv having a closed free end, a partition within the sleeve forming a passage gradually reduced in area toward one end, there being an opening in the small end of the passage affording communication with the interior of, the foraminous portion, and a closure withinthe sleeve and above the large end of the passage;

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto athxed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

V JACOB L. HUSHAW.

lVit-nesses r FLoY L. KING, 'WARRE-N CARROLL.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

